Contradições e Inovações da Autodeterminação no Sistema Internacional Contemporâneo

• Autor(a) principal: Barata, Maria João
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://www.interacoes-ismt.com/index.php/revista/article/view/387
• topic: Autodeterminação; Povo; Intergridade territorial; Povos indígenas; Self-determination; People; Territorial integrity; Indigenous peoples

Contradictions and Innovations of Self-Determination in the Contemporary International System The concept of self-determination refers both to a general principle of peoples' right to freedom and a legal norm with concrete implications in bounding, humanly and geographically, and in governing political communities. However, complex tensions and contradictions appear in such a norm of international law, at the same time that political practices that claim it or that try to restrain or regulate it, and which involve the self-determination movements, States and international organizations, put forward new perspectives for its interpretation and implementation. This article aims at reviewing and analysing these two topics about self-determination in the contemporary international system: the tensions and contradictions, in the first place, and the trends in innovating its conceptual and normative interpretation, in second place.